MSFS 2020 will not load

ChrisWhyatt · Nov 10, 2021

Hi,

I recently purchased Flight Simulator Premium Deluxe, but cannot make it load, The first two discs are fine, but the loading crashes on Disc 3 every time. I have now tried four times!

I always get the same error message:

"Feature transfer error

Component: Default

File : E/data4.cab

Error data error (cyclic redundancy check)"

Can anyone help, please?

:)

JohnCollinsXM

When i start MSFS 2020 the blue bar appears, when it's half loaded, the game closes suddenly and goes to desktop no fault code.

Jesse E'

Hello, My name is Jesse. I'm an Independent Advisor and a member of the Microsoft community and I'd love to assist you today.

I would suggest you to copy the setup file from the disc onto the hard drive and then try installing it from there and check if it helps.

If that doesn't help, you can get in touch with the game support here https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/re...

Hope this helps.

ChrisWhyatt

Thank you, I will try that.

Chris

JoePerrone

I'll try that.

For now, I got it working by downloading from Xbox site. It loaded about 1.9 gb onto my drive. When I kick off a game, it wants to see a disc in the DVD; I suppose that is because the license I have is tied to a DVD disk version.

But before I did that, I found out that the problem was a hardware issue; my DVD reader was dropping out. So I used a different one, it loaded all disks fine. However, it did not create any sort of launcher/link to kick off a game, and I could not find anything that looked like it would kick off a game. That is when I did the above, ie, a digital install.

This is working fine but I have a few questions

1) Can I remove the disks that I've loaded? If I am in fact using the small amount downloaded for the digital version, and a connection to xbox games, then I believe the 120 gb or so of files aren't being used. As they are on my C drive I'd like to free up that space.

2) If I upgrade to Deluxe can I upgrade to the digital version?

JosefLBohorquez

Make sure that you're using the account used to activate the code on both Xbox app and Microsoft Store

If yes, do this:
Sign out from your account on both Xbox app and Microsoft Store and do this:

Go to windows settings > apps > search for gaming services app > click on it and select advanced options.

After that, click repair and then reset

Then do the same for the Xbox app:

Go to windows settings > apps > search for Xbox app > click on it and select advanced options.

After that, click repair and then reset

Finally do this:

Step 1: Open the Run window by pressing Windows + R key.

Step 2: Input WSReset.exe in the Run window and click OK.

Step 3: Then a command prompt window will appear. After a few seconds, Windows Store will open.

Sign in again on both Microsoft store and Xbox app with your account and check again

MSFS 2020 will not load